Posts Categorized: Leadership
How You Can Help Build a Positive Working Environment
As an employee, you can help build a positive working environment at your job. A positive working environment is healthy, communicates well, and produces high-quality outcomes consistently. When the entire company works well together, everything runs much more smoothly. Your co-workers, managers, and even customers stand to benefit from it. Additionally, on the plus side…
Use Interviews to Figure Out Candidate Strengths
Interviews are the best opportunity to find out what strengths a job candidate has beyond their credentials. A resume only tells you what they want you to know. Beyond that, you’re on your own as far as figuring out the rest. How can you uncover a candidate’s true strengths in an interview? Here are some…
How to Make Your Temporary Employees Feel Welcome
When part of your workforce is composed of temporary workers, you may experience some friction, or lack of cooperation, between your temps and full-time employees. Taking care of all your employees, regardless of status, will ensure your business is running smoothly. It will also help you establish a good, or better, reputation in the industry…
Dealing With Abrasive Personality Types on Your Team
When dealing with abrasive personality types on your team, you may be faced with some challenges. If they are a top performer and replacing them isn’t an option, you might feel stuck. Replacing them can be expensive. It also might not be in your best interest, either. At this point, it begs the question: how…
Why You Should Partner With a Staffing Agency in 2020
Finding the right person for your business’ needs is never something you should take lightly. Finding the ideal candidate might take too long. It may also lead to a bad hire, and it could cost your company thousands of dollars and waste hundreds of hours of productivity. We don’t want that to happen! If you’ve…
Staff Retention: Why It Matters and What You Should Do
In the current competitive labor market, finding the right employees can be a big hassle. Because of this, it might be a good idea to shift focus to retention efforts and keep staff turnover low. © fizkes / Adobe Stock Staff retention is important because you want to make sure your current employees…
Give Feedback to Your Employees Frequently – Here’s Why
If you’re a manager with a decent-sized team, you know how critical communication can be. A good team can become great with exceptional communication. However, all of this starts at the top. Want to keep ahead of the game? You should be providing critical feedback to your team frequently. To find out why, continue reading.…
How to Handle the Contrasting Personalities of Your Team
Every team will have a wide variety of personalities. Managing a diverse workforce effectively can be a boon for your business. However, failing to recognize the diversity in personalities of your team can certainly spell disaster if you aren’t careful. We’re here to help you manage your diverse team in a way that will make…
3 Ways to Handle a Good Employee With a Bad Attitude
Every place of work, at one time or another, has a good employee with a bad attitude. These troublesome cases are unique. In the case of an all-around poor worker with a poor attitude, it is simply a matter of discipline or termination. However, a foul-tempered worker who is good at their job is tough,…
4 Tips When Starting a New Management Position
If you’re starting a new management position at a new company, chances are you’re starting from scratch. You don’t know any of the employees, company policies, or procedures. You are wading into deep unknown waters; what do you start with? If you are in need of some guidance, here are some ways you can put…